Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

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There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

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They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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